The second night there we had a delicious meal of stone crabs that we purchased from a fisherman at the docks. We decided to move quickly through Eleuthera this year in order to make it to a songwriters festival in Hope Town.
We spent one night at Spanish Wells. This is the view from our anchorage.
We then headed to Hope Town where we met up with our Canadian friends, George and Jackie on Heritage and Guy and Louise on Miss Ellie.
We really enjoyed the performers at the Patrick Davis Hope Town Songwriters Festival. They are a talented bunch who have written hit songs for established country artists, but are also good singers and musicians in their own right. A couple of our favorites were Casey James, who had been on American Idol, and Jessie Rice, who cowrote the song "Cruise" which was a big hit by Florida Georgia Line. It was a fun couple of nights listening to good music in a beautiful setting.
After a relaxing week in Hope Town, we anchored at Matt Lowes Cay for a night. In the morning, we snorkeled on Mermaid Reef outside of Marsh Harbor. There Dan learned that feeding Cheerios to the fish is best left for the end of your snorkel. He couldn't shake a huge school of fish that followed him around long after the food was gone.
We then moved on to Man O War. This is a pretty little town known for boat building. It is also the only dry community we have encountered in the Bahamas.
This is one of several churches we saw in Man O War.
We next spent a few nights at Treasure Cay, waiting out a big blow. There is a nice marina with good provisioning available. We had been hearing about the beautiful beach here from other cruisers. It was long and pretty, but we can't say it was better than many others we have seen in the Bahamas. There are just a lot of spectacular beaches here.
After leaving Treasure Cay, we stopped at the uninhabited Powell Cay. We took a long walk on the ocean side and found a lot of shells and a couple more sea beans.
We then spent a night at Allans-Pensacola, where we met up with Greg from Rainbeau, whom we had first met in St. Augustine. He is looking to cross back to the US the same time we are, so we may have a buddy boat for that crossing. He understands though that we sail fast. When you have a 30 hour crossing ahead of you, you don't want to slow down for another boat. At least that is our attitude, hence our previous solo crossings. We might not be the best people to buddy boat with, but are probably better than nothing for a solo sailor.
We are currently at Fox Town, our next to last anchorage before crossing.
This is a typical Bahamian village, not touristy like some of our recent stops in the Abacos. We went into town and had a delicious lunch of grilled hogfish and cracked conch. We watched some black tipped sharks circling in the harbor near a fish cleaning station and we talked to some friendly locals. These last few nights have been the kind of experience we most enjoy in the Bahamas: the remote, isolated anchorages and the small communities where there the local residents dramatically outnumber the boaters. These will be the places we will look back on most fondly when we are back home.
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